The Gaming Den

Either rehashing Mike's topics or "hey look at this idea I just invented! (that's already in the system) We could call it (the same thing the system calls it). Isn't this an awesome idea!? Aren't I a great designer? Did you miss me guys? Didja?!"

Summary of findings: there are numerous edge cases which cause blood to change colors. If you poison yourself with a bunch of specific chemicals, your autopsy will be pretty and festive. SKR is an idiot. Not as festive as if you were poisoned, tarred and tissue-papered, and your organs were surgica...

[smartass] Human blood is only red in the presence of oxygen. However SKR has only committed idiot design when he has been in the presence of oxygen, so your analogy still holds. [/smartass] [pedant]Human blood is red regardless of oxygenation. It is simply a much brighter red while oxygenated. The...

Since when does Fuchaduck = everyone else? Now I get it, you're just trolling as you always do, and you didn't really mean what you say, but trolling is supposed to be funny, and as you might expect from a robot, you have failed to produce humor. You are also failing to produce humor. Profanity was...

What I want to know is why the fuck is it taking so long to level up? Write down a few more HP, your save boosts if any, your BAB changes if any, pick a spell or two, possibly pick a feat, possibly write down a class feature and you're done. It might take a full minute if playing a complex class. Y...

It sure is a good thing the system doesn't pass out uneven amounts of skills and consider those extra skills a "class feature" for "balance" purposes to make this argument a heaping load of bullshit.

OWAIT.

you have to admit that current owners dont want people to know that they dont need them...this is a reason for the edition treadmill as it stands now. That's retarded. Everyone should know you don't NEED an RPG book in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word. Beyond that, a WotC rep* was the first pe...

Gary wrote something along the lines of "The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules." Yeah. He was fond of saying things like that. Another (less quoted) variant is "The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need...

Terms of Zendearment?
EDIT: ninja'd, dammit.


Also: I have actually come to appreciate their lack of an ignore feature. I would have missed so many (unintentionally) hilarious posts if I had been able to ban people when I first signed up.

That's true. But since Kaelik made a point originally about combat effectiveness, and he disagreed with it, we can tell that's not what he's driving at. Crap on a cracker, is it that hard to read? Here's his point, (which was in response to my long list of out of combat notes) and my response: Unfo...

Your "huge wrong post" is wrong on its face. You badly need to familiarize yourself with the subject matter, because arguing that wizards are way more effective than Tome Fighters is ignorant. No, your reading comprehension fails. You'll notice that most of my conceits had nothing to do w...

If your point isn't important enough for you to make it, why am I going to waste my time? Because you are posting in a thread about a Tome Fighter, but you haven't read the Tome Fighter's class features, so if you want to take time to make huge completely wrong posts, you should probably take the t...

If your point isn't important enough for you to make it, why am I going to waste my time?

Leper, you are kinda dumb. After reading many of your posts, I take this to mean "you disagree with me." Coming from you, I assure you that I am thoroughly complimented, my good sir. Crafting items isn't free. It costs money (and XP). Money is valuable. Money can be used to buy teleportin...

If the DM says "The Brotherhood of the Red Hand are known for using fiery axes" then most or all of them must be using fiery axes (The rest of them should be using, well, regular axes, probably. Maybe painted red). When you kill Brothers of the Red Hand who were using fiery axes, they hav...

Can your Tome character A fucking wizard likely can't do all of that by 12 level, particularly if meant for an actual game and not proving a point. Answering OP, yes Tome characters are generally overpowered, because Tomes used full casters as their balance benchmark. Most of them, if optimized, li...

Do consider though that the usual wizard player is not as optimized as that, and probably compares DPR since that's what they think Direct Damage and Area Damage is what wizards are made for. The "I do great DPR, but I am weak otherwise and easily killed" glass cannon wizard view right ou...

Can your Tome character [*]be nearly as effective in combat without caster-created items as he is with them? (i.e. bypass the usual non-caster limitation where your character relies on a caster making something for them to emulate a caster's worst choices in options, just so your character can contr...

Gnomes and Half Orcs (especially Half Orcs) were way more popular than Half Elves. The fact that 4e dropped with a brand new flavor of Elf and a brand new flavor of half dragon while dropping Half Orcs and Gnomes was just really fucking weird. I could have seen dropping Half Orcs and Half Elves ent...

First off, there are some amazing artists--painters, sculptors, etc. involved in wargaming. Granted, it does seem really odd to see less attention payed to the game itself from a certain perspective, but: [*]GW doesn't make money off of fun. [*]GW really doesn't exactly make money off of people play...

This is Monte. This is also Legends & Lore. So you can expect: [*]"The Gnome Effect" as a serious argument. (If one person in 100 likes something, then that means one in ten tables are seriously effected by not having it available--like not including gnomes as a default playable race w...

you mean Perren? Kaye was just a business partner for the most part and upon his passing his wife wanted out and sold his shares to the Blume's which started the problems of TSR. No. I meant Kaye. And the fact that you think Kaye was only a business partner kinda proves my point. He helped develop ...

I'd mostly hope they don't gloss over Kaye's contributions... again . All hail Gygax, and all that crap, but Arneson and Kaye don't get near the credit for their contributions they should. Dave at least gets lip service, (despite having some "radical" ideas on game design that were still '...

I was almost certain it was, but...

Goddammit, I guess I've spent too much time on the PF boards. That actually sounded like a sincere statement.

The thing I like the most in Pathfinder: it's very easy to create balanced homebrew. Anything that's more powerful than a monk with wow of poverty and less powerful than a witch with ice tomb is balanced against something else within the rule. Basically, it means that anything you can imagine is ba...